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PATENT OFFICE.

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of ew York, have invented new and uselful Improvements in Folding Clothes-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon which form a part of this specification. 'unilar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

The principal object of the invention is provide a folding clothes-rack having a ing hook-bar upon which clothes or the i like can be supported with the bar in either horizontal or vertical position.

Other objects will appear in connection v with the following description.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in side elevation showin my improved clothes rack with the hooker in horizontal position.

Fig. 2 is a similarview showlng the bar folded to vertical position.

Fi 3 is a view in front elevation of the wallracket.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the trunnion end of the hook-bar broken away.

Referring to the drawings, wherein the invention isshown in preferred form, 1 is a wall-bracket, adapted to be attached to a wall, 20, by screws, 2, inserted through apertures, 3, 1n the body of the bracket.

The body of the bracket is formed with a vertical slot, 4, and at the lower end of said slot with trunnion bearings, 5, open to the slot.

A hook-bar, 6, is adapted to be inserted through the slot, 4, in the bracket, 1, and

has on its inner,end trunnions, 7, adapted to engage the res ective trunnion bearings, 5, on opposite si es of the slot, 4

This hook-bar has on its underside a lurality of hooks, 8 and 9, each adapte to $11 rt an article of clothing or the like.

he innermost/hook, 8, is adapted to engage the face of the bracket, 1, and form a stop 'whereb thehook-bar supported in appFroximate y horizontal position as shown in ig. 1.

p a The hook-bar is adapted tobe swung upward upon its trunnions from the llOI'1Z0I1 talposition shown in Fig. 1 to the approximately vertical position shown in Fig. 2.

spe clfi oation of Lettersjatent.

Patented Deo.h27,1921.

. 1 Application niean rnae, 192 1. 8er1a1No.464,619.

The bracket, 1, hasatits upper end an upwardly open seat, 10, slotted at 11, to receive the body of the bar, 6; and the bar has oppositely projecting lugs, 12, adapted to be inserted in the seat,10, when the bar is swung upward to approximately vertical position and moved slightly bodily upward to carry the lugs, 9, over the ends of the slotted bearing, 10, which upward bodily movement of the bar is permitted by upward movement of the trunnions, 7, in the bearings, 5, which are vertically extended for this purpose as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In ordinary use the hook-bar is supported in horizontal position as shown by the solid lines in Fig. 1, but when for conservation of space or other reasons it isdesired to do so, the bar may be swung to the raised approximately vertical position shown in Fig. 2, in which position it is. supported by the engagement of the lugs, 9, with the seat, 10. 7

Clothes hanging on the respective hooks, 8 and 9, are caused to lie compactly against one another when the rack bar is in its folded or raised position.

To better accommodate a number of garments hanging on the respective hooks when the hook bar is raised, I prefer to so locate the seat, 10, and the lugs, 12, as to support the hook-bar in such position when raised that each more highly located hook will project somewhat farther from the bracket, 1, #iil ian the lower hook or hooks, as shown in at I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: Y

1. In a device of the class described and in combination, a bracket having an upwardlyopen seat and means of attachment to a wall; and a hook-bar having a vertically movable horizontal pivotal connection with said bracket, a stop engageable with the bracket to support the bar in horizontal position, and a bar-supporting member insertible in said seat when the bar is swung upward to approximately vertical position and its pivotal connection is raised.

2. In a device of the class described and in combination, a bracket having an upwardly open seat, and'means of attachment to a wall; and a hook-bar having a vertically movable horizontal pivotal connection with said bracket, and a lon itudinally arranged engageable with the bracket to support the barin horizontal position and a bar-sup- ,3..In-a device of theclass described and in combination, 'a bracket having an upwardly open seat and means of attachment to a wall, and provided with a vertical slot, and a, vertically extended horizontal trunnion-bearing open to said slot';iand a hookbar inserted through said slot in the bracket and having trunnions engageable with said bearings, anda member insertible in said seat when the bar is swung upward to approximately vertical position and the trunnions are raised in their bearings.

4. In a device of the class described and in combination, a bracket having an upwardly open vertically slotted seat, and means of attachment to a Wall, and provided with a vertical slot, and a vertically extended horizontal trunnion bearing; and a hook-bar insertible through said slot in the bracket and having trunnions engageable with said bearings, and a pair of laterally projecting lugs insertible in said seat when the bar is swung upward into the slot in the seat and the trunnions are raised in their bearings.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of April, 1921.

HARRIE S. GEER. 

